﻿326 
  

  

  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  GEOGRAPHIC 
  MAGAZINE 
  

  

  Photograph 
  by 
  Charles 
  Alai 
  

  

  THE 
  HOPI 
  VILLAGE 
  OP 
  WALP1, 
  WHOSE 
  TERRACED 
  PIOUSES 
  STAND 
  OUT 
  AGAINST 
  THE 
  

   BLUE 
  ARIZONA 
  SKY 
  PIKE 
  AN 
  ANCIENT 
  RUIN 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  most 
  picturesque 
  of 
  the 
  Hopi 
  towns, 
  and 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  clans 
  of 
  this 
  tribe 
  of 
  

   Indians 
  are 
  known 
  to 
  have 
  migrated 
  from 
  cliff 
  dwellings 
  such 
  as 
  those 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  on 
  Mesa 
  

   Verde, 
  Colorado. 
  The 
  Zuni 
  Indians 
  say 
  the 
  Hopi 
  people 
  built 
  the 
  great 
  houses 
  of 
  Chaco 
  

   Canyon 
  (see 
  text, 
  page 
  329)'. 
  

  

  The 
  illustration 
  on 
  page 
  328 
  shows 
  the 
  

   three 
  principal 
  types 
  of 
  masonry 
  — 
  the 
  

   oldest, 
  the 
  latest, 
  and 
  the 
  intermediate. 
  

  

  Whenever 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  old 
  Bonitians 
  got 
  

   a 
  new 
  idea, 
  he 
  set 
  about 
  its 
  realization, 
  

   even 
  if 
  this 
  meant 
  destruction 
  of 
  the 
  

   house 
  he 
  had 
  erected 
  with 
  infinite 
  labor. 
  

   Beneath 
  a 
  large 
  majority 
  of 
  the 
  40-odd 
  

   rooms 
  excavated 
  during 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  

   [921 
  we 
  found 
  the 
  razed 
  walls 
  of 
  still 
  

   older 
  houses. 
  

  

  The 
  excellent 
  example 
  of 
  the 
  second 
  

   type 
  of 
  masonry 
  shows 
  blocks 
  of 
  friable 
  

   sandstone 
  rubbed 
  smooth 
  on 
  the 
  face, 
  laid 
  

   in 
  adobe 
  mud, 
  and 
  chinked 
  with 
  innu- 
  

   merable 
  small 
  chips. 
  

  

  Walls 
  of 
  the 
  later 
  period 
  are 
  of 
  lami- 
  

   nate 
  sandstone, 
  laid 
  close 
  together 
  and 
  

   frequently 
  with 
  larger 
  blocks 
  placed 
  to 
  

   form 
  decorative 
  bands. 
  

  

  These 
  variations 
  in 
  masonry 
  can 
  mean 
  

   only 
  this 
  : 
  Irresistible 
  influences 
  were 
  at 
  

  

  